Beast World Food Stall: Feeding My Cubs and Taming My Beast Husbands Chapter 12: Discovering New Food

The griddle-cooked shrimp were numbing, spicy, and savory. The shells were crispy, and the at was firm and chewy—both numbing and hot. The grilled fish was golden and crisp, its skin slightly curled at the edges. The snow-white flesh was soaked in a red chili oil broth, so spicy it made those who had never eaten peppers before break out in a sweat.

Da Hu’s and Xiao Yu’s little faces were flushed red from the spice. While whimpering that sothing was "hitting their tongues," they kept eating the deboned fish at Yu An gave them.

Mo Yan couldn’t handle much spice, but the fried chicken was right up his alley. It was coated in a thin layer of flour, fried to a golden crisp, and the at inside was juicy and incredibly tender.

Han Li buried his head in his food, thankful he hadn’t stord off in a huff.

’A peeled shrimp appeared in my dog bowl—ah, no, my rice bowl.’ Han Li looked up just in ti to see Yu An’s hand, which she hadn’t yet pulled back.

Yu An smiled at him. "Eat up, puppy. You worked hard today."

To Han Li, the birthmark on her face looked like a blooming flower, unfurling layer by layer.

Han Li’s face flushed red, and he quickly lowered his head.

Mo Yan peeled a shrimp and placed it in Yu An’s bowl. "The fried chicken is even more fragrant than the buns," he said nonchalantly. "You should add it to the nu. I can go hunt wild chickens."

’The fried chicken is just too good. So good I’m reluctant to leave.’

’No, no, I still have to go. Once she makes it a few more tis and I get tired of it, then I won’t be so reluctant to leave anymore.’

"We’ll see in a couple of days," Yu An said casually.

’I just used cookware that wasn’t from my space, and I only have a few canisters of gas left. I need to use them sparingly.’

After dinner, Yu An gathered so ingredients from her space, made jam from the berries Da Hu had picked, and prepared a few snow skin mooncakes.

With a cub in each arm and an egg resting in front of her, she took the three little ones out to admire the moon.

There’s a saying that the moon is fullest on the sixteenth day, not the fifteenth. Today was the perfect ti for moon-gazing.

Mo Yan and Han Li were left to the side. They glanced at each other, and both could see the disdain in the other’s eyes.

For so reason, they felt like they were mortal enemies.

The fragrance drifted for miles, making the cubs in the neighboring caves cry with hunger.

Bai Rong slled it too. As she ate the bland, tasteless beast at, her mind was elsewhere.

’It slls so good! Even better than the buns. eting Boss Yu is both a sweet and torturous affair.’

"Rongrong, is that fragrance also coming from that Boss Yu An?"

From deep within the cave, a middle-aged female suddenly spoke. Bai Rong quickly put down her food and replied, "Female Mother, it must be Boss Yu. Only she can make such delicious food."

"I heard Boss Yu is from Beast Emperor City. The people in the Imperial City must be so happy, getting to eat such delicious food every day."

Bai Rong’s face was full of envy.

Bai Ruo gave a helpless smile. A thought seed to cross her mind, and her face grew even paler. "COUGH, COUGH, COUGH... Silly child, the people in Beast Emperor City are just like us. Only the nobility can afford cooked food."

"The delicacies Boss Yu makes... they might be the first of their kind on the entire continent."

Bai Rong knew her Female Mother had been exiled here, but she was always tight-lipped about the past. This was the first ti she had ever brought it up.

’My Female Mother knows so much about Beast Emperor City... could she be from there?’

On a whim, Yu An added a new item: Orleans chicken buns, priced the sa as the at buns. Compared to the previous three types, the Orleans chicken was savory with a hint of spice. The Beastn who weren’t used to spicy food were hissing and panting as they ate. For a mont, it seed like the whole crowd was made up of Serpent Beastn.

"Boss Yu!" a Beastman gasped, panting from the spice. "What is this filling? It’s so delicious!"

"It’s Orleans chicken," Yu An said. "What kind of buns would you like today?"

"Ten of each," Bai Rong said with a yawn, though her eyes were frighteningly bright. "Boss Yu, the food you made last night slled so amazing that it even attracted people from the next tribe over."

Before, the buns were only being shared within a single tribe. Fortunately, Beastn have large appetites, so they were perfectly capable of buying up all three hundred buns themselves.

But now, the local tribespeople felt a sense of crisis, worried that Beastn from other tribes would buy all the buns.

Thanks to her Female Mother’s reminder, Bai Rong had co to wait before dawn, which was how she beca the first to buy the new type of bun.

She teased the Little rfolk for a mont, giving him and Da Hu each a pretty stone as a gift before turning to head ho.

Her Female Mother had always been in poor health and could barely manage a few bites of at. Her Beast Father and brothers were always out earning money, trying to find so way to bring cooked food back for her. Who would have thought they could now buy it right on their doorstep?

Staring at the seemingly endless line, the male horse Beastman at the very back, Ma Shu, wanted to cry but had no tears.

"So many people... If I’d known, I would have been more diligent before instead of having to go earn money at the last minute."

He was the tribe’s notoriously lazy male. Once he was full, he’d go straight to sleep, never storing food or looking for a female to have cubs with.

Of course, no decent female would have him anyway.

But ever since Yu An arrived and he tasted her delicious buns, he had started going out to hunt before dawn, then taking his catches to the trading market to sell.

The round trip took two days. He had just run back with the warm copper coins in his pocket, only to find a line so long it made him want to die!

As Bai Rong passed him, she deliberately took out a warm bun and took a huge bite. "Mmm, so good!"

Ma Shu salivated so hard he had to swallow repeatedly. He barely managed to stop himself from snatching the food right out of a child’s hands.

"Go on, go on," Ma Shu said, waving his hand dismissively. "Hurry ho and stop torturing ."

Bai Rong grinned. "Alrighty! You take your ti in line, Uncle Ma. I’m heading off!"

’Finally, soone found a cure for Ma Shu’s laziness. If my Female Mother hadn’t been so kind-hearted last winter, he would have starved to death long ago.’

Bai Rong really looked down on the lazy male.

Ma Shu waited anxiously in line for a long ti. Finally, the Beastman in front of him left with their buns, and he stood before Yu An, saying eagerly, "I’ll take five..."

"I’m sorry," Yu An said apologetically as she closed the stear lid. "The buns are sold out. Please co earlier tomorrow."

Ma Shu: "..."

’My world is crashing down!’

Closing up shop and heading ho, Yu An humd a little tune and calculated how many buns she had sold in total.

’I’m just two hundred away from completing the mission. But it’s only the fourth day, so it doesn’t matter if I sell more. Who would complain about having too much money? I’ll sell four hundred each for the next two days, and then I’ll release a new product! The space will issue the new mission a day in advance, which gives exactly one day to prepare.’

"An’an, turn left up ahead. A thousand ters from here, I’ve discovered mature wild rice!"

Yu An instantly perked up. "I’ll go check it out right now."

The cart made a turn, heading in the opposite direction of the cave. Mo Yan quickly said, "This isn’t the way ho. you’re going the wrong way."

"There’s a new food source over there. I’m going to check it out."

Mo Yan fell silent, but he was very curious. ’How can she detect a food source from so far away?’

"Want to know?"

Yu An’s voice sounded right beside his ear. Mo Yan realized he had spoken his thoughts aloud. eting her smiling eyes, he clenched his fist. "I do."

Han Li silently pricked up his ears. He wanted to know, too. ’The ugly female seems to have a lot of secrets.’

"Because..."

"Look out—"

"MOO!!!"

A Wild Bull ca charging straight at them. With lightning-fast reflexes, Mo Yan snatched Yu An into his arms, grabbed Da Hu and Xiao Yu with his other hand, and leaped from the cart.

Han Li followed right behind. They all rolled on the ground, narrowly dodging the Wild Bull’s attack.

But the cart was smashed to pieces. If a blow with that much force had hit one of them, it wouldn’t be a simple matter of a few bruises.

They’d be in pieces, scattered here and there!